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REASON
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CASE
PRESENTATION

S.L.
is a 9-year-old Native Canadian boy from a Native Reservation in Western
Alberta. He was referred to the Respirology for assessment of a 5.5 cm paratracheal
mass found on CXR.

He
is a previously healthy boy, who developed a cough in February of 1999.
He was treated for a presumed pneumonia. However, no CXR had been obtained.
His cough persisted following treatment, but he was otherwise asymptomatic.
His grandmother continued to be concerned, and upon revisiting his family
physician, a CXR was done which revealed the mass. Unfortunately, the
CXR cannot be located, thus I show the scout view from his Chest CT: